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“roderick coover”

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  • Switching Codes

    Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

    Edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover ...
    Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Shape of Ancient Thought

    Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies

    by Thomas McEvilley ...
    Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered the product of both Greek and Indian thought-Western and Eastern philosophies.Thomas McEvilley explores how trade, imperialism, and migration currents allowed cultural philosophies to intermingle freely throughout India, Egypt, Greece, and the ancient ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Chromophobia

    by David Batchelor ...
    The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through colour – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some ‘foreign body’ – the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological – or by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Art Since 1989 (World of Art)

    by Kelly Grovier ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensive, accessible guide to the most groundbreaking and influential art from 1989 to the presentThe years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art’s place in society.Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss ...
    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Art and Phenomenology

    Edited by Joseph Parry ...
    Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’.An outstanding series of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Showing Off!

    A Philosophy of Image

    by Dr Jorella Andrews ...
    Drawing on art, media, and phenomenological sources, Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image challenges much recent thought by proposing a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical. In philosophy, cultural studies and art, relationships between visuality and the ethical are usually theorized in negative terms, according to the dyadic logics of seeing on the one hand, and ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books

    by Miguel Tamen ...
    What Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen’s aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Travels in Intermediality

    ReBlurring the Boundaries

    Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath ...
    How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In the light of these ongoing interactive (and intermedial) processes, the fields of cultural studies and ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Craft Perception and Practice

    A Canadian Discourse, Volume 3

    Edited by Paula Gustafson, Nisse Gustafson ...
    Series Book 3 - A Canadian Discourse
    This third and final volume in the Craft Perception and Practice series features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as presented in symposiums, exhibition catalogues and art journals. Prominent academics and theorists provide insight into the relationship between skill, technology, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Poetics of Waste

    Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith

    by C. Schmidt ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Aftershock

    The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art

    by Kieran Cashell ...
    Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical exploration. It argues that, in favouring conceptual rather than emotional reactions, commentators actually fail to engage with the work they promote ... Read more

    $29.99 USD